Word: pcs
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...furniture," Arbutis says. "And she's leery of spending a lot of money on something she doesn't know or understand." She could try the route to the info superhighway that a lot of curious but cautious seniors are taking: Internet appliances, like the three shown below. Smaller than PCs and easier to use, these devices provide e-mail and basic Web surfing for less money--and without the hassle that is keeping many greatest-generation types offline...
...only trouble with the new SoftBook and RocketBook is that the text is still ever so slightly pixelated--not as smooth or as eye-pleasing as the text you're reading now. The newest Pocket PCs do a slightly better job, thanks to Microsoft's ClearType technology.But Pocket PCs are a little too small to read an entire novel on--unless you happen to enjoy squinting...
...notion of browsing the Web and sending e-mail on something smaller than a Twinkie. But I've always thought carrying a cell phone everywhere you went was silly--just another must-have gadget designed to keep boredom at bay. Factor in the $400 list price from Sprint PCS (or $500 from Verizon Wireless), and this bauble struck me as something I could live without...
Last week New York City played host to PC Expo 2000, the summer's biggest personal-computing trade show, and we braved the stale convention-center air and 85,000 rabid technophiles to check out the latest and greatest in personal-computing technology. Ironically, PCs were the last thing on anybody's mind at PC Expo. Instead, PDAs, digital cameras, webpads, and other handheld gadgets were all the rage...
...became fascinated with computers after seeing the 1983 hacker-fantasy flick War-Games as a child in Navan, Ireland. A computer-science major at the University of Edinburgh, Clarke developed Freenet as a student project over the summer of 1998. His key innovation was the element of anonymity. PCs hooked up to Freenet (the software can be downloaded from freenet.sourceforge.net become "nodes," meaning they are host to data files deposited on them for varying amounts of time. There's no central server, as with Napster. And there's no need for users to sign on or identify themselves...